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This is my contribution to the 2013 Virtual Advent Tour. This blog tour was created by Kelly and Marg over at Virtual Advent to allow us to share a favorite Christmas or holiday memory. In western Christian tradition, the real-life Advent is all … Continue reading →

I’m working on my first book-length memoir. It’s terrifying. The general theme or topic: My immigration, at age 24, to America. Rather than just a ME-moir, I blend the personal narrative with national and family history, economics and psychology to … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Happy Elephant Blog: As writers, many of us dream of the day we’ll be able to give up our day jobs to write full time. We struggle to find time to write between, work and/or school,…

I wrote this exactly a year ago, never thinking that it would become one of many international elegies for a great poet and wit and humanitarian. Séamus Heaney’s poem, “Digging” has always been my favorite piece of literature about work. Have … Continue reading →

Last week, my audio essay, “Sanctuary” was published at “The Drum: A Literary Magazine for Your Ears.” As fond and proud as I am of this particular essay and this online literary magazine, having this piece of writing go public … Continue reading →

Should some writing come with a “made-in-China” label? In our digitized 21st century, how much of our writing is too cheap, too quick and too disposable? Has the sheer volume of digitized, podcast, broadcast and hard-copy content spawned a 24/7 … Continue reading →

I wrote this exactly a year ago, never thinking that it would become one of many international elegies for a great poet and wit and humanitarian. Séamus Heaney’s poem, “Digging” has always been my favorite piece of literature about work. Have … Continue reading →

Last week, I contributed to this wonderful blog, The Books They Gave Me, in which readers get to “reflect on the books given to us by loved ones.” For my contribution, I decided to write about my first ever gift … Continue reading →

Week 8: The Next Big Thing: Work in Progress Thank you to Donna at Girl Who Reads who invited me to join this blog hop, in which writers dish a little on our current work in progress. Thanks, too, to the other … Continue reading →